abbrev. of L. libræ pounds.
1442. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 8. The sowm of iiijll of lib. Ibid. (1528), 121. Tuenty lib. Scottis.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslies Hist. Scot., VI. 333. Ane hunder libs stirling.
1655. in A. Laing, Lindores Abb., xx. (1876), 238. 8 lib. of pledge in money.
1705. Hearne, in Rel. Hearn. (1869), passim.